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" But what would happen if the PONUM's first (or any) 15 characters could be duplicated across many PONUM's where the additional characters made the data unique? that is a good point. In our case since the PONUM is assigned by the customer there is a 2nd &amp;quot;PORLSNBR&amp;quot; field that handles duplicate PONUM values. But yeah, that would negate my generic system level solution of using triggers to create a parallel file. In defense of my colleague who is reluctant to recompile all, there is code that is 15 years old i..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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